Media Advisory: Boeing, Royal Ten Cate, Stork Fokker and University of Twente establish Research Centre in The Netherlands

WHAT: Officials from Boeing, Royal Ten Cate, Stork Fokker and the University of Twente to sign an agreement later today to establish the Thermoplastic Composites Research Centre (TPRC) at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands. A collective TPRC press release will be send to the media at 15.00 hours on Friday 12 June 2009. WHO: Anne Flierman, president of the University of Twente Jan Narlinge, president of Boeing Northern Europe Loek de Vries, president and CEO of Royal Ten Cate Jan de Jong, chief technology officer of Stork Fokker WHEN: June 12, 2009 Signing ceremony, news conference Starting at 14:00 (or 2 p.m. CET) Ending at 15:15 (or 3:15 p.m. CET) WHERE: De Grolsch Veste TOS (Plus) en FC Twente Business (Plus) Colosseum 65* 7521 PP Enschede The Netherlands * There are two entrances. Do not take the entrance on the side of the train station but the one on the opposite side. CONTACTS: Contact general information: Wiebe van der Veen Press officer, University of Twente Communications +31 53 489 4244/ +31 612185692 w.r.vanderveen@utwente.nl Communication information about companies: Eszter Ungar Boeing International Communications +32 2 777 07 26 eszter.ungar@boeing.com Jaap de Carpentier Wolf Royal Ten Cate, head corporate communication +31 546 544 306 media@tencate.com Marianne Mulder Stork Fokker, Communications Manager +31 78 6419848 marianne.mulder@stork.com This announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.